http://blog.thefoundationstone.org Learn & discover the Divine prophecies with Rabbi Simcha Weinberg from The Foundation Stone Blog Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:26:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/02/03/the-mother-i-did-not-know/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/02/03/the-mother-i-did-not-know/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:26:19 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6408 The most important thing I learned about my mother while sitting Shivah is that I did not know her. I knew that she was involved in numerous projects, establishing a Bikur Cholim in Baltimore, helping abused women, building a day care center for developmentally challenged adults, teaching, outreach, counselor, creating the Ner Israel Service League that [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/02/03/the-mother-i-did-not-know/feed/ 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/23/baruch-dayan-emet/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/23/baruch-dayan-emet/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:54:56 +0000 developer http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6405 The Foundation Stone offers its condolences to Rabbi Simcha Weinberg on the passing of his mother Rebbitzen Chana Weinberg. The funeral is scheduled for 10AM Tuesday, January 23 at Ner Israel Rabbinical College 400 Mt Wilson Lane. Baltimore, MD 21208. Shiva will be observed in Rebbitzen Weinberg’s home on the yeshiva campus. May the Omnipresent [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/23/baruch-dayan-emet/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/17/what-kind-of-leader/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/17/what-kind-of-leader/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:39:13 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6402 When I heard a rabbi describe himself as, “the Rav Moshe Feinstein of our generation,” I realized that it’s not just presidential candidates who claim to be the reincarnation of Lincoln or Reagan, but people in all areas of life who claim to lead as did a great person from the past. It’s not always so [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/17/what-kind-of-leader/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/13/moment-to-decide/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/13/moment-to-decide/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:43:33 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6399 Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ‘twixt that darkness and that light. – James Lowell, 1845 “It happened in those days that Moses grew [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/13/moment-to-decide/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/13/the-music-of-halacha-bishul-a-matter-of-time/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/13/the-music-of-halacha-bishul-a-matter-of-time/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:17:46 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6397 We began our discussion of the laws of cooking on Shabbat in, “Cooking With the Miraculous.” When we speak of the miraculous we are speaking of that which is otherworldly. When we speak of the otherworldly we not only speak of that which we cannot understand or explain, we are also speaking of that which is [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/13/the-music-of-halacha-bishul-a-matter-of-time/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/13/nurse-reveals-top-5-regrets-of-the-dying/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/13/nurse-reveals-top-5-regrets-of-the-dying/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:10:37 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6393 From Arise India Forum: “For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learnt never [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/13/nurse-reveals-top-5-regrets-of-the-dying/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/12/all-in-the-family/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/12/all-in-the-family/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:01:27 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6390 “A man went from the house of Levi and he took a daughter of Levi (Exodus 2:1).” [We have discussed the absence of proper names in “Table Talk–Shemot I."] Perhaps this verse informs us of one of the reasons that the Children of Israel fell into the trap of slavery: “a man from the house of [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/12/all-in-the-family/feed/ 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/05/laban%e2%80%99s-gasconade/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/05/laban%e2%80%99s-gasconade/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:00:46 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6383 “Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time the most arrogant (Michel de Montaigne).” We have been tracing Jacobs steps as he sets out with his “Two Way Vision,” to reverse the steps taken by all since Adam was expelled from the [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/05/laban%e2%80%99s-gasconade/feed/ 0 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/05/so-what/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/05/so-what/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:17:11 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6386 Many of the essays posted on The Foundation Stone have “Machberes Avodas Hashem” (The Service of God Notebooks) credited as the author. These essays are based on thoughts I’ve jotted down over the years to remember all the significant ideas I learn, hear, and read, and, what is more important, to figure out ways to [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/05/so-what/feed/ 1 http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/05/haftarah-vayechi-reading-the-text-david-and-yoav-ii-amasa-introduction/ http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/05/haftarah-vayechi-reading-the-text-david-and-yoav-ii-amasa-introduction/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:20:25 +0000 Rabbi Simcha Weinberg http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/?p=6381 “Now you yourself know what Yoav son of Zeruiah did to me—what he did to the two commanders of Israel’s armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Yeter. He killed them, shedding their blood in peacetime as if in battle, and with that blood he stained the belt around his waist and the [...]]]> http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2012/01/05/haftarah-vayechi-reading-the-text-david-and-yoav-ii-amasa-introduction/feed/ 0